Former Resident Files Illinois Nursing Home Neglect Lawsuit Over Inadequate Care
In Illinois, former nursing home resident Velma H. Penberthy is suing Cahokia Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for providing her with inadequate nursing care. The plaintiff lived at the long-term care facility from August 18 – December 29, 2008.
Penberthy contends that nursing home workers neglected to provide her with the proper care by failing to come up with a plan to ensure that she was kept clean so that the skin of her abdominal folds didn't become infected, as well as neglecting to come up with the appropriate plans to address her mental, medical, nursing, and psychosocial needs. Penberthy is seeking an Illinois nursing home neglect judgment in excess of $50,000.
Nursing Home Care Plans
Nursing homes are supposed to come up with customized plans designed to address each resident’s medical, nursing, and dietary needs. A sick or elderly person usually doesn’t seek admittance to a long-term care facility unless he or she needs specialized and/or round-the-clock care.
Because there are usually numerous residents living at a nursing home, it is important that nursing home workers have specific instructions regarding the type of care each person will need. These plans may include a list of prescriptions and a schedule for administering the medications, special instructions about nursing care, the need to monitor the patient for specific symptoms, and special feeding and dietary instructions.
It is important that nursing workers adhere to these plans so that a nursing home resident gets the best care possible. It may even be necessary to modify a patient's nursing home care plan as the resident’s health condition changes—whether for better or worse. Failure to provide a resident with the proper nursing care can be grounds for a nursing home neglect lawsuit.
Cahokia Nursing and Rehabilitation Center sued over resident's care, The Record, May 28, 2009
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Nursing Home Related Web Sites, Medicare.gov
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